NetStar gets Cisco unified computing certification, seeks staff

Stuart Corner
Tuesday, 01 December 2009 05:03

IT Industry - Strategy

He said that the Cisco UCS products were still very new in Australia. "It has been shipped and there are some implementations but it has only been available for a couple of months. We have a couple of customers who are keen to be among the first to deploy the new technology. We would be expecting sales in the first half of next year."

NetStar launched its data centre consulting division about six months ago and Descoeudres said he expected the data centre market to become a very significant part of the company's business. "We are expecting 10 percent in the first 12 months, and beyond that, anything up to 50 percent over the next three years."

The company is looking for additional expertise to service this growing business, Descoeudres said: "We are actively recruiting and looking to cross skill existing technical staff. We believe that to do data centre effective people need to understand at least two of the three technologies [servers, storage and networking]. We are looking at training our network specialists in data centres and we are recruiting as fast as we can find the right people.

"We are looking for server and VMware technical engineers who have exposure to networking so they can understand the bigger picture, but it is hard to find engineers who are strong in two or three of those areas."